That Samuels family is pretty special

[HuskyNan]

We know about big sis, Qadence. Younger sis, Qandace, is a freshman player of interest. A third Q, sophomore Qayden, is putting up big numbers for Bishop McNamara. Hey, Danny Hurley!

 

[HopJim]

Not my top priority but would love to know what motivated the Q-based names.

 

[topogigio]

Not my top priority but would love to know what motivated the Q-based names.

Me too, and no "u" after the Q. That was never a thing back in the day, but we're not in Kansas anymore. Love our Q, and I believe she will step up "qhugely" in Aubrey's absence, The Q's are quite the ballers!

 

[HuskyNan]

Me too, and no "u" after the Q. That was never a thing back in the day, but we're not in Kansas anymore. Love our Q, and I believe she will step up "qhugely" in Aubrey's absence, The Q's are quite the ballers!

Actually, they’re qite the ballers

 

[Hoops66]

Not my top priority but would love to know what motivated the Q-based names.

Probably just minding their P's and Q's?

 

[HuskyNan]

OK, so there are 7 Samuels siblings. Dad is Qwanzi, hence the Q.

 

[HuskyNan]

From their Twitter page

 

[and one]

Not my top priority but would love to know what motivated the Q-based names.

Star Trek fans?

 

[topogigio]

OK, so there are 7 Samuels siblings. Dad is Qwanzi, hence the Q.

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The level that Nan digs to get the "juice" is "qite" impressive!

 

[schmendrick]

Qadence, Qeen and minder of the Qs (and ps).

 

[FormerCTrez]

Me too, and no "u" after the Q. That was never a thing back in the day, but we're not in Kansas anymore. Love our Q, and I believe she will step up "qhugely" in Aubrey's absence, The Q's are quite the ballers!

I may be wrong, but I believe the absence of the letter “U” forces the “Q” to be pronounced similarly to the letter “K” or “C”. So Qadence sounds like Kadence/Cadence, Qandace sounds like Candace/Kandace, and so on.

 

[topogigio]

I may be wrong, but I believe the absence of the letter “U” forces the “Q” to be pronounced similarly to the letter “K” or “C”. So Qadence sounds like Kadence/Cadence, Qandace sounds like Candace/Kandace, and so on.

You got me thinking about that ( snow day today with not much to think about after the G-Town game.) so I did a bit of research on it. Everything I found explained the U following the Q goes back to the Latin. The Q is pronounced in the English language as the /kw/ sound (as in quick, queen). Couldn't find anything about just the Q as the "K" or "C" sound. However, the last couple of decades has seen a change of the use of the normative English spelling in names; think Dru/Jru for Drew, there are thousands of them today. Just making up a spelling is now the norm. Fun fact, the letter Q is the second least frequently used letter in the English language (0.1%) after Z!

 

[FormerCTrez]

You got me thinking about that ( snow day today with not much to think about after the G-Town game.) so I did a bit of research on it. Everything I found explained the U following the Q goes back to the Latin. The Q is pronounced in the English language as the /kw/ sound (as in quick, queen). Couldn't find anything about just the Q as the "K" or "C" sound. However, the last couple of decades has seen a change of the use of the normative English spelling in names; think Dru/Jru for Drew, there are thousands of them today. Just making up a spelling is now the norm. Fun fact, the letter Q is the second least frequently used letter in the English language (0.1%) after Z!

Nice research

 

[pk1234]

Qayden and Qandace are both elite level prospects that UConn should hopefully be pursuing.

 

[Gus Mahler]

Not my top priority but would love to know what motivated the Q-based names.

Maybe they're originally from SyraQs.